Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of MiltonYale University Press, 1. okt. 2008 - 336 sider The commercial revolution of the seventeenth century deeply changed English culture. In this ambitious book, Blair Hoxby explores what that economic transformation meant to the century’s greatest poet, John Milton, and to the broader literary tradition in which he worked. Hoxby places Milton’s work—as well as the writings of contemporary reformers like the Levellers, poets like John Dryden, and political economists like Sir William Petty—within the framework of England’s economic history between 1601 and 1724. Literary history swerved in this period, Hoxby demonstrates, as a burgeoning economic discourse pressed authors to reimagine ideas about self, community, and empire. Hoxby shows that, contrary to commonly held views, Milton was a sophisticated economic thinker. Close readings of Milton’s prose and verse reveal the importance of economic ideas in a wide range of his most famous writings, from Areopagitica to Samson Agonistes to Paradise Lost. |
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... critics who have written on literature and economics . Set- ting aside studies that employ economic vocabulary ... criticism.27 The association between words and money is as old as Zeno , as Marc Shell has observed , and it remained ...
... critics who have written on literature and economics . Set- ting aside studies that employ economic vocabulary ... criticism.27 The association between words and money is as old as Zeno , as Marc Shell has observed , and it remained ...
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... criticism , not historiography . In practice , if not in theory , New Historicists tend to assume a pro- visional division between text and context much like the one I have just proposed . They often make other methodological ...
... criticism , not historiography . In practice , if not in theory , New Historicists tend to assume a pro- visional division between text and context much like the one I have just proposed . They often make other methodological ...
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... critics have suggested , A Maske may obliquely commend ; he also prevented illegal en- closures and suppressed the disturbances that they provoked , protected a local mining monopoly , and heard numerous private actions over debts and ...
... critics have suggested , A Maske may obliquely commend ; he also prevented illegal en- closures and suppressed the disturbances that they provoked , protected a local mining monopoly , and heard numerous private actions over debts and ...
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... critics like Christopher Hill.16 But it is just as important to recognize that the Lady's argument is predicated on the economy's being static rather than dynamic : distribu- tion will be the sole important factor in an economy only if ...
... critics like Christopher Hill.16 But it is just as important to recognize that the Lady's argument is predicated on the economy's being static rather than dynamic : distribu- tion will be the sole important factor in an economy only if ...
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... critics have not always found easy to explain , the Lady's apparently virtuous absti– nence nevertheless leaves her " in stonie fetters fixt , and motionlesse " ( line 818 ) . Some critics have suspected her of incontinent desires , and ...
... critics have not always found easy to explain , the Lady's apparently virtuous absti– nence nevertheless leaves her " in stonie fetters fixt , and motionlesse " ( line 818 ) . Some critics have suspected her of incontinent desires , and ...
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Part Three Force Commerce and Empire | 125 |
Part Four The Meaning of Work | 201 |
Conclusion | 233 |
Abbreviations | 253 |
Notes | 255 |
Index | 311 |
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